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III Semester MA Sociology
SOC3 E03 SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH
Multiple Choice Questions
1. …………………… is a state of complete physical, mental’ and social well-being.
A. Culture
B. Health
C. Community medicine
D. Society
2. ……………………. a model of disease and illness that regards them as the consequence
of certain malfunctions of the human body.
A. Social model
B. Community based model
C. The biomedical model
D. None of the above
3. ………………. Involving a focus on the whole rather than on specific parts or aspects
A. Micro level
B. Specific model
C. Holistic approach
D. Individualistic approach

4. Sick role is a pattern of behavior defined as appropriate for people who are………….
A. Ill
B. Social
C. Well
D. None of the above
5. According to …………. Perspective, how societies lacking social cohesion have poor
health.
A. Conflict
B. Psycho-social
C. Ecological
D. Functional
6. According to …………………. perspective- how societies lacking access to resources
have poor health.
A. Psycho-social
B. Neo-material
C. Ecological
D. Functional

7. …………… is the incidence of death in a country’s population.

A. Mortality
B. Fertility

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C. Fecundity
D. Morality
8. ……….. theory which accounts for the impairment of health as the automatic
consequence of some act or experience of the victim.
A. Animistic causation
B. Mystical causation
C. Social causation
D. Economic causation
9. ……………….. theory which ascribes the impairment of health to the behavior of some
personalized supernatural entity – a soul, ghost, spirit or god.
A. Animistic causation
B. Mystical causation
C. Social causation
D. Economic causation

10. Subjective illness is the ………… experience of feeling unwell.

A. Subjective
B. Social
C. Cultural
D. Medical
11. Social illness is …………… inequalities causing illness
A. Cultural
A. Medical
B. Socio-economic
C. Cultural
12. ……….. an approach to the prevention and treatment of disease that is based on the
study of human heredity, environment, social structures, and cultural values.
A. Traditional medicine
B. Allopathic Medicine
C. Western Medicine
D. Social medicine
13. Which of the following international conferences advocate the health promotion?

A. Ottawa charter
B. ICPD
C. Beijing conference
D. habitat II
14. Father of medical sociology-

A. Macintyre
B. Parsons
C. John Snow
D. None
15. CDM stands for-
A. clean development mechanism

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B. community development mechanism

C. clear development model
D. none
16 Helisinki declaration was about:
A. women rights
B. ethics in research
E. human rights
F. gender issue
17. Alma Ata conference on Health was held in
A. 1978
B. 1968
C. 1988
D. none
18. ICPD focus on
A. women RH issues
B. child health issues
C. adolescent health issues
D. all
19. Main objective of IHP
A. disease control
B. donor harmonizarion
C. health promotion
D. research
20. Those physicians and Nurse Practitioners who deliver comprehensive health care in
the clinic setting ?
A. Primary care health provider
B. Secondary health care system
C. Social sector
D. Community Health provider
21. ……………. is the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver
health care services to meet the health needs of target populations.
A. Ecological sector
B. Health care delivery system
C. Social sector
D. Cultural group

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22. ……………………….. a social organization and logical combination of the activities

of a number of persons with different level of knowledge and skill for achieving a common goal
of patient care through a hierarchy of authority and responsibility.
A. Hospitals
B. School
C. Religious institutions
D. Community centers
23. …………………….. patients who go to a hospital just for diagnosis, treatment, or
therapy and then leave without staying overnight.

A. Outpatients
B. Inpatients
C. Cancer patients
D. None

24. ………………… patients who are 'admitted' and stay overnight or for several days or
weeks or months
A. Inpatients
B. Outpatients
C. Cancer patients
D. None

25. ………………. Is the hospital, which is set up to deal with many kinds of disease and
injury, and normally has an emergency department to deal with immediate and urgent
threats to health.
A. Primary Health centers
B. General hospital
C. Community Clinics
D. PHCs
26. ………………….. an essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and
socially acceptable methods and technology
A. Primary healthcare
B. Secondary healthcare
C. Tertiary healthcare
D. None of the above
27. …………………. the health care services provided by medical specialists and other
health professionals who generally do not have first contact with patients, for example,
cardiologists, urologists and dermatologists.
A. Primary healthcare
B. Secondary healthcare
C. Tertiary healthcare
D. None of the above
28. ………………… specialized consultative health care, usually for inpatients and on
referral from a primary or secondary health professional, in a facility that has personnel

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and facilities for advanced medical investigation and treatment, such as a tertiary referral
hospital.
A. Primary healthcare
B. Secondary healthcare
C. Tertiary healthcare
D. None of the above
29. ……….. lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough
of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one does eat.
A. Nutritional
B. Healthy
C. Malnutrition
D. None of the above
30. …………….. the death of children under the age of one year
A. Fertility
B. Fecundity
C. Infant mortality
D. None of the above
31. ………………… all organized measures (whether public or private) to prevent disease,
promote health, and prolong life among the population as a whole.
A. Primary healthcare
B. Secondary healthcare
C. Public health
D. None of the above
32. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) was constituted by the Planning Commission of India
in………….

A. October 2010
B. September 2013
C. January 2000
D. March 2020
33. ………………… established with the mandate of developing a framework for
providing easily accessible and affordable health care to all Indians
A. WHO
B. ICHR
C. ISB
D. Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
34. ………………. are illnesses that have a significant probability of transmission
between humans by means of sexual behavior

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A. Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)

B. Cancer
C. Corona Virus
D. None of the above
35. ……………. Is a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-
being.
A. Sick
B. Illness
C. Mental Health
D. All of the above
36. ……………is India's primary social welfare scheme to tackle malnutrition and health
problems in children below 6 years of age and their mothers
A. ICHR
B. ICDS - Integrated Child Development Services
C. ISB
D. Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
37. Which of the following terms refers to a branch of study that deals with the patterns, causes,
risk factors, and impact of health-related events in particular populations?
A. Epidemiology
B. Sociology
C. Psychology
D. None of the options are correct
38. Which of the following terms refers to the subdivision of epidemiology that examines how
social interactions and the combined activities of humans influence health?

A. Social epidemiology
B. Experimental epidemiology
C. Social psychology
D. None of the options are correct

39. Why is epidemiology important?

A. It identifies risk factors for disease

B. It informs health policy
C. It helps researchers discover evidence-based treatments

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D. All of the options are correct

40. Epidemiology, as defined in this lesson, would include which of the following activities?

A. Describing the demographic characteristics of persons with acute aflatoxin

poisoning in District A
B. Prescribing an antibiotic to treat a patient with community-acquired methicillin-
resistantStaphylococcus aureus infection
C. Comparing the family history, amount of exercise, and eating habits of those with
and without newly diagnosed diabetes
D. Recommending that a restaurant be closed after implicating it as the source of a
hepatitis A outbreak
41. John Snow’s investigation of cholera is considered a model for epidemiologic field
investigations because it included a:
A. Biologically plausible hypothesis
B. Comparison of a health outcome among exposed and unexposed groups
C. Multivariate statistical model
D. Spot map
42. Epidemiologists are interested in learning about ____________________ .

A. the causes of diseases and how to cure or control them

B. the frequency and geographic distribution of diseases
C. the causal relationships between diseases
D. all of the above

43. Diseases that are always present in a community, usually at a low, more or less constant,
frequency are classified as having an ____________ pattern.

A. epidemic

B. endemic

C. pandemic

D. hyperendemic

44. Epidemic diseases are ones that are not always present in a community. They appear, rise
rapidly in the number of cases, and then decline or even disappear.

A. epidemic

B. endemic

C. pandemic

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D. hyperendemic

45. Which of the following statements is true concerning epidemic diseases?

A. They are usually not very contagious.
B. At the end of an epidemic, a disease spreads at an increasing rate and then abruptly
disappears.
C. They usually appear and disappear seasonally.
46. An epidemic that becomes unusually widespread and even global in its reach is referred to as
a …….
A. pandemic
B. hyperendemic
C. Viral fever
D. Spanish flu
47. A disease vector is a(n) …...
A. organism that transmits a disease
B. symptom of a disease
C. environmental condition associated with a disease
48. What is Palliative Care?
A. Is an approach to reduce cost of treatment
B. Is an approach to quality of life of patients with terminal cancer
C.Is an approach to reduce mortality and morbidity of the country
D. Is an approach to improve quality of life of patients and their family who are facing
life treatment illness
49. The purpose of ……………… is to limit the incidence of disease by controlling causes and
risk factors
A. Primordial prevention
B. Primary prevention
C. Secondary prevention
D. Tertiary prevention
50. An infected person is less likely to encounter a susceptible person when a large proportion of
the members of the group are immune

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A. Active immunity
B. Passive immunity
C. Herd immunity
D. Specific immunity
51. Occurrence in the community of a number of cases of disease that is unusually large or
unexpected

A. Endemic
B. Epidemic
C. Pandemic
D. Infection

Answer Key

1. B
2. C
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. B
7. A
8. B
9. B
10. A
11. B
12. D
13. A
14. B
15. B
16. B
17. A
18. B
19. C
20. A
21. B
22. A
23. A
24. A
25. B
26. A
27. B

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28. C
29. C
30. C
31. C
32. A
33. D
34. A
35. C
36. B
37. A
38. A
39. D
40. A
41. A
42. D
43. B
44. A
45. C
46. A
47. A
48. D
49. B
50. C
51. B

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